Asda I see your priorities!

Research Fellow in Design History and Studies (0.4 FTE)- University of Brighton - School of Humanities and Social Science www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLG145/r...

Heard about these but only one I’ve seen. #CressetStone filled with oil to light stairs for monks getting up early to say #Prayers #Brecon

Particularly after my 2024 foot operation “normal” socks really irritate. So (deep breath) I shall have to take up knitting again and become self sufficient in comfy socks

Christmas can be lovely and awful in equal measure. I hope yours is the former, but if not here are some resources…

Anyone wondering what that bizarre sitar-adjacent instrument was just now on BBCR4, it was “the standard European harp of late medieval, renaissance & early baroque periods, still used until the late 18th C in some places.”

Here, have a donkey harpist and goat singer.

earlymusicmuse.com/brayharp/

We welcome applications to join our editorial board, from a range of career stages as well as regional, period and methodological specialisms. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our board as part of our mission to decolonise journal practice.

Deadline: Dec 31
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Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany?

I am scouting!

Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

My book 'Welsh Not' is now out. It explores both the perception and treatment of language in 19th-century education & the wider reasons for linguistic change in Wales.

£20 in paperback or a free pdf here: uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...

Excellent PhD studentship: Data, Race & Empire, on the work/ collecting of Archibald Hewan, the first black missionary physician in West Africa

With @bookscribbler.bsky.social, Linda Andersson Burnett & Zachary Kingdon at National Museums Scotland

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j... #histSTM 🗃️📜

Went to a family wedding and found lots of lovely graffiti- item 1 - A foot print scratched half way up the wall (assorted other marks a bonus)

My ruff sets were a bit rubbish - it’s only in the practice do you really appreciate the skill that went into turning out looking respectable